Overclocking my 6600GT for you know what

This is a discussion on Overclocking my 6600GT for you know what within the Tech Board forums, part of the Community Boards category; So anyway I've started fiddling with overclocking my card ready for when I can afford Oblivion. I'm using Coolbits and ...

Overclocking my 6600GT for you know what

So anyway I've started fiddling with overclocking my card ready for when I can afford Oblivion. I'm using Coolbits and I've clicked "Detect Optimal Frequencies". The core clock jumps up to 348 MHz from 300, and the memory clock to 991 MHz from 900.

I left it at that and played CoD2 and was blessed by what can only be described as chunky strips of rain and having my hands seeming strung together and holey. Oh and I get the occasional strip of texture across a battlefield. Mmm, strippy.

Now I kinda expected this because I've read the CoD2 is quite sensitive to overclocking, but HL2 and the CS:S Video stress test run without any graphical artifacts.

20fps more than what?
20fps more than 200 is not worth risking your hardware for.
20fps more than 20 might be, but I'd be very scared about the heat you're generating when you're pumping that much more data through the thing.

I know about running in DX7 and I've got no problems with it, except the water looks absolutely disgusting. I mean in CoD1 (which was 8.1) it looked ok, CoD2 w/ DX9 looks alright too, but in DX7 it's just blue mass and looks really out of place.

Still a great game though.
Well it looks like I'm not going to get much more performance outta my card for Oblivion